[…]me through as I was going home to dinner, [Laughter] going home for the Sunday and that was the end of that weekend. [Laughter]Yes.Oh yes.I remember Frank Coombes telling me he’d burnt the Derby negative?Oh yes, that’s right. He caught that alight in a projector. [Laughter]Yes, yes, yes.I forgot abo[…]
[…] it's peak wasn't it? I mean this was... with the Rank Organisation getting underway and making enormous numbers of films, and […]
[…] it's peak wasn't it? I mean this was... with the Rank Organisation getting underway and making enormous numbers of films, and […]
[…] I’d never had before, and I arrived with these serried ranks of people – BBC board, you see – and […]
[…]e clutter of complicated process. That came out onto the scene, I think, in the mid-‘80s in its earliest form. It replaced a system which I think was Rank’s own idea called Top-C which I didn’t get to grips with at all but it was around in my early days, when I wasn’t allowed to touch that kind of t[…]
[…]th PPMs with Janet Fields with all the bits you would expect to find in an actual broadcast studio. They had a theatre with proper lighting rigs, big Rank dimmer panel and two tape machines with splice-ball edits. So, as well as the entertainment system where the students sort of ran the PA system, […]
[…]the Odeon management as it were and they pushed you wherever they needed you?Barry Quinton: Yes, all the cinemas I worked in all belonged to the Rank Organisation. They were either the Odeons or the Gaumonts and I moved then on to the Gaumont. I moved back to Finchley at the Gaumont Tally Ho Co[…]
